The Sunday Edition: How vaping took over Britain
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This episode was originally published two year ago.
They are supposed to help adults quit smoking – so why is a Willy Wonka array of disposable vapes being mass marketed to children? The Chartered Trading Standards Institute wants tougher penalties for those selling to under-18s. Just how did vaping get so big in Britain?
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| 1:56.5 | stories of our times. So back then, Josh Glancy decided to take up vaping just to see how |
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